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once in minutely examining the ruptured ends of a suspensory 
ligament, we thought that we had detected oozing from them 
and forming in the meshes that surrounded the seat of the 
lesion little threads which looked to us like worms. We had no 
opportunity to settle the question in this case, and that we had 
to deal with cases of parasitism like the form of filariosis due 
to the presence of filartci reticulata , we are not able to say. 
The careful reading of an excellent article due to the pen of an 
army veterinarian (M. Prader), which we found in the Archives 
de Parasitologie , has drawn our attention lately to the subject 
again, and while the subject as treated by M. Prader is not alto¬ 
gether of the same nature as those of our common breaking 
down, we have thought that some extracts from the Archives , 
with some of the illustrations, might be of great interest to our 
friend —so much so that we have failed to find anything on 
this subject in the literature at our disposition. We hope not to 
be mistaken, and while the subject seems to end only in nega¬ 
tive results as far as general therapeuty is concerned, we feel 
that by presenting it to our readers it will open up for them 
an opportunity for inquiry and for investigation into the etiol¬ 
ogy of a disease which is as yet so incomplete. 
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Ticks as Infecting Agents. —The part played by hsema- 
tozoas in the development of diseases among animals is daily 
made more and more known. To the various filarioses which 
have been known for a long time, have successively been added 
the diseases due to the spirochcetcs (spirillosis of geese); to the try¬ 
panosomes (surra of India), Nag an a or disease of the Tsetse of 
Austral Africa, and to the piroplasmas (bacterian hsematuria of 
cattle and carceag of sheep, observed by Starcovies and Babes in 
Roumania ; Texas fever , so thoroughly studied by Smith and 
Kilborn ; tick fever of Australia ; Tristeza of South America; 
Rooi water of Austral Africa; hcemoglobinuria of cattle of Fin¬ 
land, etc., etc. Piroplasmas cover an immense field ; they are 
found in every part of the globe and everywhere; ticks are also 
found as the agent of transmission and spreading of the disease. 
